Florida Family Research Network, Inc.

Florida's Center for Research and Education in Bowen Theory

FFRN 2021 Annual Conference: Can't Live Without It: Anxiety and Adaptation In Evolution And The Family

This year's conference to be hosted on Zoom
A link and password will be provided upon registration


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• $110 Early-Bird Registration (received by 2/21/22)

• $125 Individual Registration (after 2/21/22)

• $100/person Groups of 3 or More (registered and paid together) 

• $25 Student Rate (with ID)

• $10/person 6 CEUs for Psychologists, LCSW, LMFT, and LMHC processing fee

• Complimentary admission for Albizu students, staff, and faculty
   RSVP via email to ibarron@albizu.edu

Featured Speaker: Walter H. Smith, Ph.D.

Dr. Smith is a licensed psychologist with a private practice that specializes in treating children, families and couples. He is a founding member of the Western Pennsylvania Family Center, an education resource center for lay and professional persons interested in understanding families from a Bowen family systems theory perspective. he consults with numerous organizations and presents at all-day conferences throughout the United States and several countries.

Featured Speaker: Carrie E. Collier, Ph.D.

Dr. Carrie Collier, Ph.D. was appointed director of the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family in 2019. A licensed professional counselor, she has experience in child and family residential psychotherapy, autism family therapy and has served as a therapist for adults with schizophrenia. Dr. Collier’s research focus entails parenting in family systems and family system responses to challenges.


Schedule:

9:15 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. - Dr. Collier
10:15 a.m. to 10:35 a.m. - Discussion
10:35 a.m. to 10:50 a.m. - Break
10:50 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. - Dr. Collier
11:50 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. - Discussion
12:10 p.m. to 1:10 p.m. - Lunch
1:10 p.m.to 2:10 p.m. - Dr. Smith
2:10 p.m.to 2:30 p.m. - Discussion
2:30 p.m.to 2:45 p.m. - Break
2:45 p.m.to 3:45 p.m. - Dr. Smith
3:45 p.m.to 4:10 p.m. - Discussion
4:15 p.m.to 4:30 p.m. - Wrap Up


Goals and Objectives:

1. Participants will learn how symptoms, threats and events challenge families and social groups and shape the functioning of interlocking relationships in families.

2. Participants will better understand how parenting is an aspect of overall family functioning and multi-generational family emotional processes.

3. Participants will learn how the impaired functioning of some members of a family emotional system are an aspect of a family's adaptive efforts.

4. Participants will better derive hypotheses that explain and guide interventions for effective parenting.

5. Participants will better understand the basic concepts of Bowen family systems theory and how to apply them to clinical and organizational settings.

6. Participants will learn how to use the family unit functioning questionnaire to better understand how to think about parenting behaviors in the family system.

For further information, contact
Eileen Gottlieb | 561-279-0861

The Florida Family Research Network (FFRN) is approved by the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling to provide continuing education (Provider # BAP-182 Exp. 3/31/2021). Albizu University is approved by the American Psychological Association to provide continuing education. FFRN and CAU maintain responsibility for the programs.

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